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Need some ideas for your Christmas list? Or feel like you're missing some guitar-related accessories? Check out these items that every guitarist should have!

In this John Mayer lesson, we will break down the chords, licks and even guitar solos, so it's all here for you. So, let's dive into this Slow Dancing in A Burning Room guitar lesson…

This lesson will help you come to terms with one of the common modes - the Dorian mode! See how making just one change from an already familiar scale will open up a whole new world of sound!

The Minor Pentatonic scale… known and loved by all! In this quick lesson, I'm going to show you how to 'fill in' the pentatonic shape with various intervals to create new scales and completely open up your lead playing!

Eric Clapton in Cream was a force to behold! "Clapton is God" was the general opinion amongst fans! In this blog post we dive into one of my favourite Clapton licks...

We take one of Joe Bonamassa's more epic licks and place it over a track to put it in context. We then break it down to get to grips with the whole thing. If you aspire to play fast bluesy rock runs, you will love this!

Whether using our interactive tab player, normal tabs or reading full blown sheet music, you will have come across various cool symbols and musical directions to follow. In this blog post, we'll dive into the most common musical navigations.

For this Halloween special, Dion is going to dive into his top 3 speed-building tips that will start to unlock this part of your playing for you based on many many years of working with speed-building on the guitar.

We all go through the C major chord struggles, and in this blog post I want to take the time to not only help you understand why it's a tough step, but also give you some awesome examples of how you can substitute this chord.

In this lesson we're building a mega pedal board from absolute scratch! We've got a bunch of pedals, a blank pedal board, an array of cables, plugs and velcro strips! Start your pedal board journey here.

With just 5 open chord shapes, you can play a whole world of classic songs. I will walk you through 5 songs that I've selected using these exact chords. The only tings you'll need are a guitar, capo and a pick!

I will take you through 5 incredible pentatonic exercises that you can use not only to improve your speed, chops and technique but also use in your own improvisation, as demonstrated at the very start of the video! Let's get into it!